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I'm Joyce Meyer. I've seen God's power transform my own life and He will do it for you.

Are you willing to take a risk when you need to? You know, God has an amazing plan for your life.

But in order to actually experience it, you may have to take a risk and step out in faith and trust God.

I want to encourage you with some practical steps that will help you do that later in the program.

Risk taking and following God into the unknown is something I'm very familiar with in my own life and ministry.

It's how we got started and how we continue to walk in God's will to this very day.

This year, our ministry is celebrating 30 years of broadcasting the gospel on TV.

And we've seen so many people's lives transformed by the power of God's word.

The day ginger is with me and we're going to talk about taking risks.

You know, I can't imagine what it must have felt like for you and for Dave 30 years ago.

But before you had this foresight, you know, what God was going to do through all of it,

to think about going on television.

I mean, what a huge hurdle and a risk to take.

How did that kind of come about that you thought, okay, we're going to do this thing?

Well, it's very interesting because I was just doing my various meetings around town here.

I did, as I said, God told me to go north, south, east and west.

So I did. I went to north, south, east, east, east and west.

I had a meeting once a month in each one of those places.

And one day Dave came home and he said, I bought a television camera today.

And I said, what?

And he said, yeah, I just felt like that God showed me that once you do these teachings,

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